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Raw Paleo Diet Forums => Off Topic => Topic started by: TylerDurden on May 23, 2014, 02:47:47 pm
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2636845/Will-overpopulation-drive-CANNIBALISM-Controversial-academic-claims-humanity-moving-issue-ridiculous-speed.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2636845/Will-overpopulation-drive-CANNIBALISM-Controversial-academic-claims-humanity-moving-issue-ridiculous-speed.html)
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Adie, Cambridge, United Kingdom, moments ago
DM, as a supposedly responsible newspaper you ought not to report the rantings of this lunatic. Since the 1970s Ehrlich has predicted that (a) by 2000 all life in the oceans would be extinct and that we would be unable to approach the coast because of the stink of rotting fish, (b) that India would have descended into barbarian chaos through repeated famines, (c) that in the USA millions of people would have died of hunger by the year 2000, while (d) in Great Britain waves of strikes, civil unrest and riots would have reduced the country to starvation. Yet only last year, amazingly, the BBC was quoting him as an expert!
I think the depopulation movement is doing a pretty good job at convincing most people not to reproduce via contraception / abortion / abstinence, and if they aren't brainwashed, their health is sabotaged by food, drink, and pollution.
The fertility rates trends are still going down world wide. Wake me up when the fertility rates spike up.
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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (8491) 9/13/2011 8:30:13 AM
From: KyrosL
But there are some good news. If present trends continue, by 2020 the worldwide fertility rate will drop below replacement level, so by 2040 or earlier world population will peak and start declining. World fertility rate is currently 2.5 and the replacement rate is 2.33 . In the last 30 years the world fertility rate fell from 3.7 to 2.5 or by 0.4 per decade.
Source: http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsgs.aspx?subjectid=57046&msgnum=8483&batchsize=10&batchtype=Next (http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsgs.aspx?subjectid=57046&msgnum=8483&batchsize=10&batchtype=Next)
See also: http://www.economist.com/news/21589151-crashing-fertility-will-transform-asian-family-baby-boom-bust (http://www.economist.com/news/21589151-crashing-fertility-will-transform-asian-family-baby-boom-bust)